NOTICE. SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, January, 1869. The General Court at its last session, by a Resolve, approved June 4, 1868, directed "That the special acts of this Commonwealth, passed from the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, to the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, both years inclusive, be collated and published under the direction of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, in a volume as nearly as may be in conformity with the volumes of the special laws heretofore published, and that a full and complete index of the matter contained therein, be appended to said volume." In accordance therewith, this volume, being the eleventh of the Special Laws, and containing the Acts of the years 1860 to 1865, inclusive, has been printed. The same general plan has been pursued in its arrangement as in the ninth and tenth volumes. The Acts have been carefully collated with the original parchments, and the great experience and accuracy of the persons intrusted with the performance of the work |